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Appeals court finds NSA’s mass metadata collection was unlawful NSA

Appeals court finds NSA’s mass metadata collection was unlawful

Edward Snowden leaked information about the NSA's mass surveillance activities, back in 2013. Screenshot by Terry Collins/CNET A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the US National Security Agency's bulk collection of citizens' phone records was against the law. The program, now ended, collected records from phone carriers about who called…
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September 2, 2020
Joe Biden slams President Trump for not having a national plan for reopening schools during the pandemic Joe Biden

Joe Biden slams President Trump for not having a national plan for reopening schools during the pandemic

We’ve watched the clip provided by CBS News and we’re not sure what Joe Biden’s “national plan” is to reopen schools across the country during the COVID-19 pandemic. Democrats certainly are leaning hard on President Trump, though, to lay down national mandates on things like wearing masks. They’re quick to…
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September 2, 2020
Climate change could deliver more sediment and pollution to the San Francisco Bay-Delta Climate Change

Climate change could deliver more sediment and pollution to the San Francisco Bay-Delta

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Climate change could deliver more silt, sand and pollution to the San Francisco Bay-Delta, along with a mixed bag of other potential consequences and benefits, according to a new study in the AGU journal Water Resources Research, which publishes research articles and commentaries providing a broad…
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September 2, 2020
Ninth Circuit rules NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ call records was illegal NSA

Ninth Circuit rules NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ call records was illegal

The National Security Agency program that swept up details on billions of Americans' phone calls was illegal and possibly unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.However, the unanimous three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said the role the so-called telephone metadata program played in a criminal terror-fundraising…
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September 2, 2020